Pre pub day jitters

I just cleaned my house. And I am not a good cleaner. In fact, I’m a terrible cleaner. But, I’m a bundle of nerves and excitement and cleaning calms me down. I remember watching Monica’s neuroses on Friends when she’d clean to calm herself down. And while...

Ted Lange… meeting my childhood crush

One of the best parts of growing up are those full circle, ‘ah hah’ moments which make life utterly fantastic. Last week, I was on a panel for the NAACP play festival and enjoyed one of those  moments when I discovered that I was sitting on the panel with...

A face for radio and a voice for tv

We all know the voices: Howard Cosell… Ryan Seacrest… Margaret Thatcher. Whether we like them or not, we respond to them. They are distinctive, crisp, resonant. They don’t fill the silences with “hmm’s” and...

A big week of premieres and what to wear

Something must be in the stars because this upcoming week is far busier than my usual ‘stay-at-home-and-write-and-drink-wine-and-write-and- watch-bad-reality-tv-and-write’ weeks. Friday August 10th is the opening night for Sister Cities. This is the fourteenth...